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adamzegelin

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    Comment #40765985

    For big screen projected analog sources (aka, a video signal rather than film) there was this amazing piece of tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor A mirror coated in a thi…

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    Comment #40328292

    Anything important and proprietary is now in firmware.

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    Comment #39341798

    On Linux, /etc/services often contains a list of at least protocol names and numbers.

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    Comment #38897653

    My comment was suggesting that it's more than just a "lightweight" HTTP/websockets/MQTT library. The majority of the things I list are optional features of the core library (rather…

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    Comment #38897274

    HTTP, websockets, MQTT, ... plus the kitchen sink it seems: - JSON parsing - DNS, DHCP and NTP clients - SOCKS5 proxy support - DBUS client and server - Threadpools - SSH - JPEG an…

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    Comment #38065955

    Probably do-able using Pipewire/Pulseaudio. I just tried, and I'm able to pair both my Macbook Pro and iPhone to my Linux desktop PC. The PC has Kensington Bluetooth USB dongle. Bo…

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    Comment #36324046

    Impressive that Apple keeps support documentation for such old products.

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    Comment #36192186

    > Why does any of it operate on remote cloud API calls when it could operate locally? Vendor lock-in, and gives them the ability in the future to hold your devices hostage by requi…

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    Comment #34366313

    See also: Cassandra and CQL.

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    Comment #33174956

    > installing the bootloader to the MBR You mean copying bootx64.efi onto the ESP, right? It's 2022... MBR is beyond ancient at this point!

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    Comment #32891968

    You can also use Gimp via a RDP or VNC session, which will give much better performance on low-bandwidth connections, since those protocols do damage detection, only sending update…

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    Comment #32132933

    Chrome doesn't use WebKit. Google forked WK many years ago into Blink [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)

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    Comment #32064597

    Just a quick experiment: I started 4 copies of VLC. `top` shows this: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1806287 adam 20 0 1091068 74664 56228 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.22 …

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    Comment #32064322

    Isn't summing RSS going to end up with the wrong numbers? My understanding is that RSS is memory allocated (heap + stack) + executable pages inclusive of shared libraries. i.e, if …

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    Comment #31676150

    Cadence: https://cadenceworkflow.io

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    Comment #30915208

    I've had good success with a 1x4 KVM from Level1Techs. I use it paired with a Alienware AW3418DW 3440x1440 120Hz G-Sync monitor. My PC has a NVIDIA 2080 and G-Sync+120Hz works fine…

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    Comment #30067062

    Check out Sigrok: https://www.sigrok.org

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    Comment #28796471

    seems like LVGL has direct support for the frame buffer: https://github.com/lvgl/lv_drivers/blob/master/display/fbdev... other devices are supported too

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    Comment #27610987

    > Their library also contains C extensions with undefined behavior, and telemetry that phones home. Source for this?

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    Comment #26550233

    Great to see more tooling in the ZFS space, especially around send/receive. I'd like to see more around snapshot management too. Last release in 2016 though?

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    Comment #26352255

    While we're at it, can we convince the Australian govt. too please? Something like 10/5 is considered "fast enough".

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    Comment #26338596

    The problem is that `s.index` with an `offset` equal to `limitedBy` returns non-nil index, rather than nil, but that index is invalid (out of bounds) and causes the program to blow…

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    Comment #26011617

    > The "C" in C stands for compatible. Source? Wiki says: > A successor to the programming language B, C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 197…

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    Comment #24012590

    > if you're using the Dropwizard Metrics library, for example, you've already lost. Can you go into a bit more detail here? Curious to know where Dropwizzard goes wrong. I prefer t…